As Trump reshapes GOP in his image, Republican women are disappearing from Congress by TheStephSy
of the #MeToo revelations, and culminating with the 2018 midterms, when more women than ever were elected to Congress. Hoping to build on that momentum, half a dozen women have announced their presidential candidacies and are taking another crack at that highest and hardest of glass ceilings.
“We are not going to get to gender parity if only one party is electing women to Congress,” says Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics. In another divergence, 77 percent of women who called themselves liberal said there was a great deal or good amount of bias against women in power, compared to only 28 percent of conservative women who felt similarly.
In 2016, the gender gap between Clinton and Trump was 24 points, with the majority of women voting for Clinton. But Trump held strong with Republican women, and even won white women overall, with 52 percent of their vote. “I think white Republican women will vote for Trump again in 2020,” she said over email. “Partisanship will continue to be the primary force driving women’s vote choice, particularly in this highly polarized political environment.”
The disparate attitudes among women were on stark display during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Conservative women were more willing to give Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt than liberal women, who by and large saw his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, as the victim.
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